Description

Your goal in the second half of this class is to create a report that gives current undergraduatestudents in your field of study advice about how to pursue their careers during and after college.You have the information that you gained from the interviews of faculty and alumni that youdid, so now you will gather more information about career advice for undergrads and recentgrads and prepare a report that your colleagues in your major can read. You will create the reportand also an explanatory document in which you explain what you learned in your research andhow that affected your report.

Your audience will be the other students in your major as well as faculty who will bereading over your work. Thus you must consider what will make your report attractive to yourcolleagues to read and believe but also be acceptable to faculty.

This may sound like a boring report in which you plug in boilerplate info that you get from theinternet, or, alternately, you may feel that writing this report is an intimidating project that isasking you to approach a problem that is way too big for an undergrad to think about. But thetruth is that you are writing a document that explains the issue to other people in your field ofstudy, and so you should base your choices of what to include in and research for this documenton what you want to know for yourself. You may need to research the Bureau of LaborStatistics’s Occupational Outlook Handbook for your career , resources from sites like HarvardBusiness Review, The Muse, LinkedIn, and other resources about your career that you can find orthat are recommended to you by your interviewees. In all cases, you must soak up career advicefrom various sources, check it against other sources, narrow the advice down to a particularissue if possible, and decide how students at Western would like to hear this info and what itwould take for you to get them to believe you.

It will take work; the people you will be talking to know more about careers than you do, and soyou will have to ask them what sort of research will support their advice and will be believableto students in your major. Maybe just “get an internship” is not detailed enough to get Westernstudents to act, and so you must look to the internet to find studies on just how much aninternship increases the chances of you getting a job post-graduation.